The Stigma

To preserve their self identity, some need the stigmas firmly in place.

This is a response to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH_TLIWvgqc

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• Phoobar1

[TheStigma]

I approve of the title of this video! ;)

(and hey - also the message, good work)

[Pilgrim812]

You see the issue clearly What a brillant, even perspacacious commentary!

There are far reaching consequences both to those who stigmatize and

those who are stimatized in this sad game. I am a believer who rejects

religion and dares to seek God without mediator or veil. I believe first

and foremost in the soul of man and the collective nature of that soul.

When we damage someone else we also damage ourselves.

[GnosticAtheist]

Yeah, pretty much agree. Not in all cases. As a fag I have never really felt any problems. Oh right I live in Norway...

[sakurasky]

Homophobia tells me more about a person's self-esteem than their (so called latent) sexual orientation. Stigmas against homosexuality, and many other stigmas for that matter, strike me as more akin to why people love trashy talk shows. I see it as people with low self-esteem hating on others as a way to feel slightly superior. Remove the stigma, and you remove someone's (laughable) measuring stick of their own sense of worth.

[rehndawg]

Although I'm a Diest by heart I visit my local Catholic Church because that's how I feel closer to God in a house of Worship...it can be any church but since it's at the corner I go there. Although raised Catholic I don't support their negative ideals being Anti-Gay marriage. The whole focus on child molestation is BS and an attack on a religion. There are Christian abusers and Buddhists aswell. But I support gay marriage.I support abortion.priests & nuns should marry like in the middleages

[dollhog1]

This is an excellent observation you've made. I hope you don't mind if I use it next time I'm in a conversation with one of the many homophobic people i will inevitably run into.

[EyeLean5280]

I read in one of the major news magazines once that scientists did a big study on men convicted of violent crimes, in which they showed them both gay and hetero porn. For most crimes the majority of men responded to the straight porn but the men convicted specifically of gay-bashing violence overwhelmingly got their erections looking at the gay porn.

[swineinfluziest]

I think it also has something to do with feeling masculine and powerful. If these guys can somehow spin in their mind that gay= weak and straight = powerful and they can beat up gay people or rally against them its an ego boost in a sick inconsiderate kind of way

[Mrtitmice]

by the way, kudos to you for bringing an engaging topic to the table, interesting channel. :D